Lawrence J. Ellison was born in Chicago IL, in 1944. He studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago, which has 71 noble prizewinners that have been affiliated with the school. His accomplishments include the Entrepreneur or the Year in 1990 from the Harvard School of Business. In 1994 he was awarded the Smithsonian Information Technology Leadership award for Global Integration. An honorary degree from Northern Jiao Tong University in China. Ellison is a director of …showed first 75 words of 348 total…

…showed last 75 words of 348 total…anti-trust suits against Microsoft. Because of the controversy Larry was able to claim the thrown of the riches man in the US for one day at least. On April 25, Ellison surpasses Gates with a total worth of over 50 billion dollars while Gates ended the day at 49.4 billion dollars. Larry is now working on a new operating system for Palm Pilots. Oracle has been an industry leader and will continue with worldwide growth in the future.